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| US-7,472,076 |
method for conducting an auction of a plurality of heterogeneous items The invention provides a method for conducting an auction of a plurality of heterogeneous items. The method comprises making, by offering parties, offers to... |
| US-7,472,075 |
System and method to associate broadcast radio content with a transaction
via an internet server A system and method for providing services to users in vehicles based on radio broadcasts received by a vehicle's radio receiver. The system includes a... |
| US-7,472,074 |
Method and apparatus for a commercial network system designed to
facilitate buyer-driven conditional purchase... The present invention is a method and apparatus for effectuating bilateral buyer-driven commerce. The present invention allows prospective buyers of goods and... |
| US-7,472,073 |
Non-cash transaction incentive and commission distribution system An electronic fund transfer system is disclosed wherein commissions for point-of-sale purchase transactions are determined and distributed to members of an... |
| US-7,472,072 |
Systems and methods for targeting consumers attitudinally aligned with
determined attitudinal segment definitions Disclosed herein are systems and methods for selecting a target group of consumers from a larger group of consumers in a computer database. Thus, for a given... |
| US-7,472,071 |
Interactive system for managing questions and answers among users and
experts A method, executed by a server, for providing answers on one or more topics from a set of experts on each topic to questions posed by users. Users can direct... |
| US-7,472,070 |
Grain aeration systems and techniques In one embodiment, the invention is directed toward a networked grain aeration control system. For example, the system can provide centralized monitoring of the... |
| US-7,472,069 |
Apparatus for processing framed audio data for fade-in/fade-out effects An apparatus that process framed audio data to add fade-in and/or fade-out effect with low computing speed and small memory. The apparatus includes a deframer... |
| US-7,472,068 |
Methods, systems, and products for interactive voice response Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering a personal interactive voice response service. A personalized greeting is retrieved that is... |
| US-7,472,067 |
Application program interfaces and structures in a resource limited
operating system A set of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for a resource-limited environment are disclosed. The APIs provide a mechanism for a computer application to... |
| US-7,472,066 |
Automatic speech segmentation and verification using segment confidence
measures An automatic speech segmentation and verification system and method is disclosed, which has a known text script and a recorded speech corpus corresponding to the... |
| US-7,472,065 |
Generating paralinguistic phenomena via markup in text-to-speech synthesis Converting marked-up text into a synthesized stream includes providing marked-up text to a processor-based system, converting the marked-up text into a text... |
| US-7,472,064 |
Method and system to scale down a decision tree-based hidden markov model
(HMM) for speech recognition A method and system are provided in which a decision tree-based model ("general model") is scaled down ("trim-down") for a given task. The trim-down model can be... |
| US-7,472,063 |
Audio-visual feature fusion and support vector machine useful for
continuous speech recognition A speech recognition method includes several embodiments describing application of support vector machine analysis to a mouth region. Lip position can be... |
| US-7,472,062 |
Efficient recursive clustering based on a splitting function derived from
successive eigen-decompositions Methods and arrangements for facilitating data clustering. From a set of input data, a predetermined number of non-overlapping subsets are created. The input... |
| US-7,472,061 |
Systems and methods for building a native language phoneme lexicon having
native pronunciations of non-native... Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language,... |
| US-7,472,060 |
Automated dialog system and method This invention concerns a method and system for monitoring an automated dialog system for the automatic recognition of language understanding errors based on a... |
| US-7,472,059 |
Method and apparatus for robust speech classification A speech classification technique for robust classification of varying modes of speech to enable maximum performance of multi-mode variable bit rate encoding... |
| US-7,472,058 |
Automatic audio source detection for capture devices A method for selecting an audio source when capturing audio data with at least one capture device includes connecting an audio source to an audio input port of... |
| US-7,472,057 |
Detector for use in voice communications systems One or more methods and systems of detecting or identifying one or more types of algorithms used in the encoding of a voice or speech waveform is presented. The... |
| US-7,472,056 |
Transcoder for speech codecs of different CELP type and method therefor A transcoder for use between speech codecs using different Code-Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) type and a method therefor are disclosed. The transcoder... |
| US-7,472,055 |
Method and system for deterministic control of an emulation An emulation-based event-wait simulator including an application module to configure and command verification processes on a design under test (DUT). An event... |
| US-7,472,054 |
Method and system for deterministic control of an emulation An emulation-based event-wait simulator including an application module to configure and command verification processes on a design under test (DUT). An event... |
| US-7,472,053 |
Geometric model database for use in ubiquitous computing A system and process for providing a geometric model database for use in an ubiquitous computing environment. In general, the geometric model database system and... |
| US-7,472,052 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for simulating a storage
configuration for a computer system An apparatus and method are provided for simulating a target storage configuration for a computer system. In particular, a storage command is received from an... |
| US-7,472,051 |
Dependable microcontroller, method for designing a dependable
microcontroller and computer program product therefor A microcontroller comprising a central processing unit and a further fault processing unit suitable for performing validation of operations of said central... |
| US-7,472,050 |
Method and apparatus for computer modeling a joint The present invention relates to a mathematical and computer model of a joint. The model includes representation of the biological processes related to the... |
| US-7,472,049 |
Design method and design system for vehicular lamp, program to execute
designing of vehicular lamp and record... Disclosed is to provide a design method and design system for a vehicular lamp, a program to execute designing of vehicular lamp and a record medium recording... |
| US-7,472,048 |
Direct digital drive audio system and method A direct digital drive audio system and method system and method are presented. The direct digital drive system and method utilizes a digital signal to directly... |
| US-7,472,047 |
System and method for constraining a graphical hand from penetrating
simulated graphical objects Movement of a graphical hand is constrained when the physical hand controlling the graphical hand does not have a similar physical constraint. An analysis of a... |
| US-7,472,046 |
Apparatus and method of simulating the movement of elements through a
region of 3D space The movement of elements through a region of three dimensional (3D) space is simulated by utilizing a number of two dimensional (2D) grids to define the region... |
| US-7,472,045 |
Method for perturbating a nuclear reactor core fuel bundle design to
generate a group of designs A method has been developed to select fuel rod enrichments for a fuel bundle of a nuclear reactor, the method including: creating an ordered list of fuel rod... |
| US-7,472,044 |
Horizontally structured CAD/CAM modeling-vertical to horizontal conversion A method for converting a vertically structured CAD/CAM model to a horizontally structured CAD/CAM model, comprising: identifying and establishing a base... |
| US-7,472,043 |
Mass customization configurator The present invention provides an automated configuration system and method for electronics enclosures. The system receives user requirements generates a... |
| US-7,472,042 |
Surface profile measuring method A surface profile measuring method using a broad bandwidth light source illuminating a sample surface and a reference surface through a splitter is provided. By... |
| US-7,472,041 |
Method and apparatus for accommodating device and/or signal mismatch in a
sensor array Noise discrimination in signals from a plurality of sensors is conducted by enhancing the phase difference in the signals such that off-axis pick-up is... |
| US-7,472,040 |
Automated collection of information Computer-implemented methods and apparatus are provided for collecting information gathered by an instrumentation mechanism for transport to an information... |
| US-7,472,039 |
Program, apparatus, and method for analyzing processing activities of
computer system The system provides a technique for detecting changes in behavior of a computer system. An address data storing unit obtains an address being accessed by a CPU... |
| US-7,472,038 |
Method of predicting microprocessor lifetime reliability using
architecture-level structure-aware techniques A method of predicting the lifetime reliability of an integrated circuit device with respect to one or more failure mechanisms includes breaking down the... |
| US-7,472,037 |
System and methods for quantitatively evaluating complexity of computing
system configuration A technique for quantitatively evaluating a complexity associated with a configuration of a system under evaluation comprises the following steps/operations.... |
| US-7,472,036 |
Service providing system, service providing method, and program A judgment section (200) judges the presence or absence of a specific event-related potential in an event-related potential of user's (50) electroencephalogram... |
| US-7,472,035 |
Method for analyzing measurement data of device under test, program,
measurement data analyzing system An operation method for a semiconductor measurement apparatus having measuring, displaying, inputting, and storing devices, and a computing and controlling... |
| US-7,472,034 |
System and method for test generation for system level verification using
parallel algorithms A system and method for test generation for system level verification using parallel algorithms are provided. The present invention generates test patterns for... |
| US-7,472,033 |
Apparatus for controlling semiconductor chip characteristics Apparatus including functional components of circuitry defined on a semiconductor chip, the functional components including a component having modifiable... |
| US-7,472,032 |
Adaptive multi-axis sensor array A sensor array made up of 2n piezoelectric oscillators (preferably paired quartz oscillators) is provided in which n equals the number of axes of interest and... |
| US-7,472,031 |
Adjusting a scale and sorter for a particular product based on an
identification signal from a transponder... A product with a transponder is conveyed along a measurement line of a weighing device and an actual weight value is determined. An exchange of data with the... |
| US-7,472,030 |
Dual mode single temperature trimming In a system for performing a dual mode single temperature trim upon an electronic device to remove combined mismatch and process variation errors, a dynamic... |
| US-7,472,029 |
System for improving RAS characteristics relating to calibration
algorithms in an automated robotic system An automated data library system employs a calibration sensor, the fiducial target and a controller in electrical communication with the calibration sensor to... |
| US-7,472,028 |
Sensor or capacitance measuring with a microprocessor An apparatus, system, and method for measuring parameters, measuring or determining capacitance, producing a digital output that is dependent upon a capacitance,... |
| US-7,472,027 |
Method and apparatus of low power energy detection for a WLAN A method and implementation disclosed for detecting interference. A state machine controller is provided for establishing an interference detection cycle... |
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